Worry about OE in VM on OSX?

[Ryan Kline]

> The MacBook Pro is plenty powerful enough to handle what you're doing.
Yup, and I've got two gigs of RAM.

> Now if you want to "bitbake world" then I'd recommend a 40 GB VM  
> HD ... just to cover your bases.
What is all this, "world" stuff. I've seen "hello world" also, is it  
like a system?

Thanks to everyone who has replied to my posts. You have all been  
very helpful. Much more accepting than Apple Discussions.

-ryan

On Feb 12, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Michael Dickens wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2007, at 8:17 PM, Ryan Kline wrote:
>> Thanks, I'm just being too lazy.
>
> Somewhat, but you're also learning.  For most things, try google  
> (or whatever your favorite search engine is) first, read through a  
> few hits, and then if it's still confusing ask the list.  Many of  
> your non- or semi-technical questions can be answered that way.
>
>> Im pretty scared about this OE thing because I am running Linux on  
>> VMWare Beta, on my brand new 17" MacBook Pro...Should I be worried?
>
> There is really nothing to worry about.  VMware's Fusion is an App  
> that doesn't modify the OS in any significant (i.e. irreversible)  
> way; you can always "uninstall" it if you want and you're good to  
> go just like it wasn't there (except maybe a pref or 2 that are  
> harmless).
>
> As for the VM hard drive, it's just a file that resides on the OSX  
> hard drive.  You can delete it if you want to, anytime you want to.
>
> If you were running Windows in your VM, then you might worry since  
> even with the latest patches it's pretty easy to compromise your  
> Windows box if you happen to download certain torrents from certain  
> WWW sites.  But running Linux in your VM is quite safe - at least  
> as safe as running OSX as your host OS.
>
> As a VM user, my primary concerns are (1) that I have enough DRAM  
> on the host computer to support both running - 512 MB per user per  
> OS is good these days under OSX; (2) that the host hard drive is  
> big enough - but pretty much any HD will be big enough these  
> days ... the VM HD really needs only maybe 20 GB or so for most  
> "usual" things.  Now if you want to "bitbake world" then I'd  
> recommend a 40 GB VM HD ... just to cover your bases.
>
> The MacBook Pro is plenty powerful enough to handle what you're doing.